k3b???

[gene heskett]

On Tuesday, April 03, 2012 05:26:41 AM Duncan did opine:

> gene heskett posted on Mon, 02 Apr 2012 19:17:26 -0400 as excerpted:
> > Greetings;
> > 
> > I needed to burn a copy of the bios for a new intel board this
> > afternoon,
> > and when I fired off k3b, it had a small litter of kittens:
> > 
> > [gene at coyote ~]$ k3b KGlobal::locale::Warning your global KLocale is
> > being recreated with a valid main component instead of a fake
> > component, this usually means you tried to call i18n related
> > functions before your main component was created. You should not do
> > that since it most likely will not work [gene at coyote ~]$
> > K3bQProcess::QProcess(0x0)
> > K3bQProcess::QProcess(0x0)
> > k3b(26825)/kdeui (kdelibs): Attempt to use QAction "view_projects"
> > with KXMLGUIFactory!
> > k3b(26825)/kdeui (kdelibs): Attempt to use QAction "view_dir_tree"
> > with KXMLGUIFactory!
> > k3b(26825)/kdeui (kdelibs): Attempt to use QAction "view_contents"
> > with KXMLGUIFactory!
> > k3b(26825)/kdeui (kdelibs): Attempt to use QAction "location_bar" with
> > KXMLGUIFactory!
> > QCoreApplication::postEvent: Unexpected null receiver
> > 
> > But it did burn the cd ok.
> > 
> > Is this something one of us should do something about?  If so, what?
> 
> Short answer: Nothing to worry about.
> 
> Rather longer, with a caveat:
> 
> In general, it seems that kde devs don't normally expect their apps to
> be run from a terminal window by "ordinary users".  Instead, I guess
> they expect them to use the menu system or run them from krunner (the
> run dialog), such that STDOUT and STDERR get sent to /dev/null.  Given
> that expectation, kde apps run from a terminal window (or otherwise
> with user visible STDOUT/STDERR) tend to be very noisy, spitting out
> all sorts of developer targeted warnings due to use of deprecated
> functions that the app hasn't been updated away from yet but that still
> work perfectly well, etc.
> 
> Thus, in general, such "noise" from a kde app is to an end user just
> that, "noise", and can be entirely disregarded.  The /problem/ of course
> is that when there actually /is/ a problem and you're running from a
> terminal window in ordered to troubleshoot, all that perfectly normal
> for a kde app noise hides the information that might actually be
> telling you what's wrong and how to fix it.  There's all these alarming
> looking messages... but most of them are perfectly normal!  The only
> hope for anything useful in that case is to diff the output generated
> from a working install to that of the one with the problem, in ordered
> to see what's actually different between them.  But of course that
> requires at least two systems, one of which must still be working,
> either that or per incredibly lucky chance, a captured "normal" output
> from before the problem, to compare against.
> 
> That's always been a bit of a frustration of mine, particularly since
> unlike some, I don't normally keep multiple systems around.  (I do now
> have a netbook as well as my main machine, both running kde on gentoo,
> but the netbook's install isn't updated anything near as frequently, and
> is actually kde 4.6.4 or some such at this point, I think, while my main
> machine is 4.8.1, to be 4.8.2 after its scheduled release later this
> week.  With that much of a version gap, and different hardware as well,
> the comparison is of limited use.)
> 
> 
> The caveat:  The ISO-9660 spec does have some technical particulars
> related to locale, and at one point anyway, there was a rather common
> misconfiguration that k3b would complain about as it could screw up the
> ability of the generated images to be read on other systems, MS Windows
> being the most common I'd expect.  At least that was my understanding of
> the situation.
> 
> I don't recall the specifics, but it's possible that local warning is
> related to that.  FWIW, I get it (along with the other complaints you
> posted, plus something about a missing smb.conf, not surprising as I
> don't have samba installed and have most of the related kde
> functionality build-time disabled where possible) too.
> 
> So it's /possible/ that locale-related complaint might have some
> relevance if you intend to load the generated ISOs on MS platforms or
> the like, or maybe not as it could be locale related but entirely
> separate from that old issue, but other than that, no, I don't believe
> that output is anything to worry about, at all.

It did work, it burnt the bios update as requested.  And its 10,000% easier 
to type k3b in a user terminal than it is to wade through the menu's and 
find it, under archivers of all places.  Call me an anachronism at 77, but 
if I can spell it, I can type it a heck of a lot easier than I can hunt 
around in the cracks and crannies of a poorly laid out menu system.

So I suspect you are 200% correct. System housekeeping has never been kde's 
strong point.  :)  They get lots more points for making bz hard to use IMO.  
Its forgot who I am, again.  But funny thing, if I try to open a new 
account, it will toss it in the bit bucket because I already have one.

Thanks Duncan.

Cheers, Gene
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